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How Awful About Allan

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Allan (Anthony Perkins) is blamed for an accidental fire that killed his father (Kent Smith), disfigured his sister (Julie Harris) and landed him in an institution. Eight months later, partially blind and guilt-stricken, he's let out of an institution and rents a room from his estranged sibling in an effort to put his life back together, but someone is out for revenge and wants to drive him crazy.

Archivist Notes

carlo subterfuge★★★★★

"I guess this just goes to show that back in the day Aaron Spelling movie of the week productions were actually occasionally worthwhile affairs. Anthon..."

8/23/2009
poggydublin★★★★

"A good dark atmospheric thriller. Unfortunately, it was quite predictable and I was already predicting the eventual outcome after only 20 minutes. Ho..."

8/7/2009
Luke Th. Bullock★★★

"It is, as another mentioned, a "rainy day movie", something you can watch while drinking tea and eating popcorn or biscuits. I liked the slow pace, th..."

6/23/2009
gmonk★★★

"Not a bad film, albeit a little slow moving, even for an 80 minute runtime. There are better films in the Horror section here on the archive but this..."

6/3/2009
flickfdude★★★★

"It was 'psycho' all over again. I half expected to see hitchcock make an appearence. The image quality wasn't that good though."

2/15/2009